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- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
its historical data period from 20 years to six or seven; today, Liberty looks at only the most recent three years. As climate change and the resulting rise in catastrophic weather continue to have these dramatic implications on the View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
New Health Options for Small-Business Employees
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
creates delay and duplication. Individuals must own their record, and the health plan is the place to assist each subscriber by pulling all the parts of his or her record together. What do we do about 45 million uninsured people? We need... View Details
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Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected
By: Maximilian J. Pany, Michael E. Chernew and Leemore S. Dafny
Concern about high hospital prices for commercially insured patients has motivated several proposals to regulate these prices. Such proposals often limit regulations to highly concentrated hospital markets. Using a large sample of 2017 US commercial insurance claims,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Providers; Hospitals; Insurance Market Regulation; Price Regulation; Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Quality; Insurance; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Pany, Maximilian J., Michael E. Chernew, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected." Health Affairs 40, no. 9 (September 2021): 1386–1394.
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
valuable insights for founders and universities as they invest more into the higher-risk, early-stage research that often results in meaningful innovation. Companies have long teamed with academia, but such partnerships might become more... View Details
- July 1, 2018
- Editorial
The IRS Can Save American Health Care: Letting Workers Spend Pretax Dollars on Insurance Would Do a Lot—Without Requiring Congress to Act
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Joel Klein
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Joel Klein. "The IRS Can Save American Health Care: Letting Workers Spend Pretax Dollars on Insurance Would Do a Lot—Without Requiring Congress to Act." Wall Street Journal (online) (July 1, 2018).
- 14 Nov 2019
- Video
Health Minute: The Real Impact of Coupons on Drug Pricing
- 27 Feb 2017
- News
Achieving Universal Coverage Without Turning to a Single Payer
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
procedures. Nondiscriminatory Insurance Underwriting. Two anomalies mar the pricing of health plans. First, people who are included in large risk pools (such as those who work for big companies) can get a... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
- August 2003 (Revised September 2008)
- Background Note
Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jeff Grahling
This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector,and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers. The insurance... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sectors; Financing and Loans; Insurance; Industry Structures; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Jeff Grahling. "Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-039, August 2003. (Revised September 2008.)
- 2012
- Other Book
Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System
By: Michael E. Porter and Clemens Guth
The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve... View Details
Keywords: Health
Porter, Michael E., and Clemens Guth. Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.
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Academics - Health Care
This course is the premier value-based health care course geared toward executive management and physician leaders from health care delivery organizations, health View Details
- October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments
By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality... View Details
Keywords: Health Financing; Health Insurance; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Bundled Payments; Innovation; Scale; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; California; San Francisco; San Diego; Seattle
Huckman, Robert S., and Sarah Mehta. "Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments." Harvard Business School Case 617-017, October 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
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Events - Health Care
Events Events Aug 13 13 Aug 2025 HBS Health Care Alumni Association Open to the public The Great Healthcare Disruption Big Tech, Bold Policy, and the Future of American Medicine Zoom Drawing from his experience as Executive Vice President... View Details
- 05 Jun 2024
- News
Us Senate Searches for Fix to Homeowners Insurance Woes
- Program
Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care (e.g., Minute Clinic) as part of their business model Senior executives from... View Details